Ep. 23: Dismiss Thoughts of “Compensating” for a Binge
Brain over Binge Podcast
Kathryn Hansen
4.6 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 23, Kathryn discusses some common habitual thoughts that may be encouraging you to binge: thoughts of “making up for” or “compensating” for a binge. She discusses the harmful nature of purging behaviors, and how to avoid letting thoughts of compensating for binges convince you to act on binge urges.
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever feel out of control around food, you're not alone, and you're in the right place to learn practical, no-nonsense information about why you binge and how to stop. |
| 0:12.4 | Binge eating does not mean that something is wrong with you. It's a natural but primitive brain response that you can correct. |
| 0:19.9 | If you're ready for change, sign up for the |
| 0:22.3 | Brain Over Binge self-paced online course for less than $20 per month. And if you feel you need |
| 0:28.2 | personalized support, we also offer one-on-one coaching and group coaching. To learn more, go to |
| 0:34.6 | brainoverbinge.com forward slash subscribe. |
| 0:38.3 | And I hope you enjoy the show. |
| 0:45.8 | Welcome to the Brain OverBinge Podcast, where you learn a simple brain-based approach to ending binge eating. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm your host, Catherine Hansen, and in this podcast, I share information and strategies to help you put an end to your binge eating. I'm your host, Catherine Hansen, and in this podcast, I share information |
| 0:55.3 | and strategies to help you put an end to your binge eating. I hope that each episode helps |
| 1:00.8 | you feel just a little more empowered and a little more capable of achieving recovery. |
| 1:05.8 | Today I'm going to be helping you become more aware of thoughts that may be leading you toward |
| 1:10.5 | binge eating. |
| 1:11.6 | As you know, if you've listened to the past episodes, that in the brain over binge approach |
| 1:16.2 | that I'm sharing in this podcast, I believe that the urges to binge are the direct cause of binge |
| 1:22.1 | eating. And as a reminder, an urge to binge is any thought, feeling, or physical sensation that encourages binge eating. |
| 1:29.9 | If you took away these thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations that are making you feel |
| 1:34.8 | compelled to binge, you would not binge. There's nothing about your life circumstances or your |
| 1:41.0 | stress level or your emotional state that makes you binge. It's only the urges to |
| 1:46.6 | binge that are getting you to actually binge. The more you can become aware of your urges, |
| 1:52.4 | the more you can see how they're operating and getting you to act, and then eventually you can |
| 1:57.6 | avoid acting on them. There are some common patterns of thought that binge eaters |
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